Measuring Out-of-pocket Payment, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and the Related Socioeconomic Inequality in Peru: A Comparison Between 2008 and 2017

Measuring Out-of-pocket Payment, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and the Related Socioeconomic Inequality in Peru: A Comparison Between 2008 and 2017

Objectives: Describe out-of-pocket payment (OOP) and the proportion of Peruvian households with catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and evaluate changes in socioeconomic inequalities in CHE between 2008 and 2017. Methods: We used data from the 2008 and 2017 National Household Surveys on Living and...

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Main Authors: Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Carlos Rojas-Roque, Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández, Diego Rosselli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Subjects:
health expenditure
healthcare disparities
financial risk sharing
universal health insurance
peru
Online Access:http://www.jpmph.org/upload/pdf/jpmph-20-035.pdf

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